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Innerorbit

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Hi, new grower here. Just completed my first grow ever with soil and decided to try straight perlite hempy for grow #2. Started some seeds in a rapid rooter inside of dixie cup hempys and I plan to transplant them to 2 gallon buckets soon.

I have to travel a lot for work up to 5 day stretches at a time and was wondering if there would be any issue putting my drain hole at 3" or more from the bottom of the bucket to increase the reservoir size so I'm not so worried about them when I'm gone or constantly having to ask people to come water them while I'm gone. Any potential issues with moving the hole up?
 
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Roger A. Shrubber

Roger A. Shrubber

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too far and it'll get stagnant, and you won't have room for enough roots. they don't grow into the res like they do into the medium. the plant grows some tap roots down into the res, the main mass is in the medium.
and heres a thing i've noticed recently, and am changing....i've been filling my buckets up to my drain hole with perlite, then the rest with 70% coco/30% perlite mix. there are very few roots down into the perlite at all, and the ones that are, are big ropy tap roots. i'm going to straight 70/30 mix through the whole pot. i'd rather the plant decides where to grow what, than running into the equivalent of a brick wall
 
OJAE

OJAE

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Anyone got information on using pk boost in hempy? Mine says to use weekly, would that mean to add it to my normal nutrient solution every week that I use to water? or does it mean add it separately once a week? instead of it being in there until the next full nutrient change? :confused:
 
Roger A. Shrubber

Roger A. Shrubber

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i use one for a short time, right at the beginning of the swell. i make up my normal volume of water, and add the pk boost to 200 ppm, then i add my regular flower nutes to make up however much i want the total to be. i do that for two feedings at the beginning of them swelling, then go back to regular flower food, but that's also when i start to drop ppm slowly, after they get the pk boost.
 
OJAE

OJAE

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I'm using Growth Technology IONIC Hydro HW that state 'NPK – 2.9-2.5-6.2', does this shed light if I need one?

After reading about people using these nutrients on another forum . I wanted to try a simple grow using their one part veg, one part bloom and the pk boost.

I've been going by just watching the plants as I haven't got around to getting a new EC pen, plants are thriving but I want to try and make sure I optimise bud growth.I'm still learning a lot.
 
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rkymtnman

rkymtnman

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OJAE said:
I'm using Growth Technology IONIC Hydro HW that state 'NPK – 2.9-2.5-6.2', does this shed light if I need one?

After reading about people using these nutrients on another forum . I wanted to try a simple grow using their one part veg, one part bloom and the pk boost.

I've been going by just watching the plants as I haven't got around to getting a new EC pen, plants are thriving but I want to try and make sure I optimise bud growth.I'm still learning a lot.
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i used Ionic many years ago. just the bloom bottle from start to finish. i dont' think i used the ionic boost.
do they have a feed chart on their website?

like roger said above, most PK boosters are only used twice during bloom. after the stretch and then towards the end.
 
Roger A. Shrubber

Roger A. Shrubber

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in flower i use jack's 12-15-20....the 'pk boost" i use is jack's blossom booster, at 10-30-20, so call it close to 10-20-20 for the two feeds i use it...of course the 12-15-20 could be broken down to 3-4-5, and the 10-30-20 is just 1-3-2...you just use less of it...ratios stay the same
 
OJAE

OJAE

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rkymtnman said:
i used Ionic many years ago. just the bloom bottle from start to finish. i dont' think i used the ionic boost.
do they have a feed chart on their website?

like roger said above, most PK boosters are only used twice during bloom. after the stretch and then towards the end.
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Growth Technology had a calculator but unfortunately the link to it is broken.

I got this from onepotgrowshop.



There's also charts for hydro coco and soil here.
https://www.npktechnology.co.uk/pages/feed-chart-ionic
 
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rkymtnman

rkymtnman

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interesting, that is the same stuff.

i thought the bloom by itself was good.

can you try some plants with the boost and some without?
 
Smiffy2k9

Smiffy2k9

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Well lads, some nice grows going on in here.

Im currently growing in sub irrigated planters (2.8liter fabric pot sat on a pot filled with perlite for the res) but since starting them ive learned there isn't enough soil to run water only soil and am having nute problems so im making the switch to hempys on my next run of seeds.

Im planing on using 2liter bottle hempys with 100% perlite and gh 3 part nutes. Going to be doing either 9 or 12 altogether depending what will fit in my space, roughly 16"x20". Fastbuds gorilla glue auto. Bridgelux eb led strips.

My plan is,
2liter bottle cut top off. Paint black. Drill hole 2 inch up from bottom. Fill with washed perlite. Plant germinated seed and follow the general hydroponics nute schedule.

Is it worth while installing a float the check the res level?
Top or bottom watering, any difference between the 2?

Ill try read the whole thread overtime but for now what are the dos and donts of hempy growing.
 
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Roger A. Shrubber

Roger A. Shrubber

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2 liters is pretty small, but if you're going for the quick flip you can pull it off.
i'm curious how (and why) you would install a float in a 2 liter bottle full of perlite...
you're going to have to water at least twice a day in that size container....shouldn't be a need to "check" a res that you're going to be filling at least twice a day...
top watering is infinitely superior in hempy buckets...it's the way they were designed to be used...the water flowing through the medium oxygenates it...how does bottom watering oxygenate anything?...
 
Smiffy2k9

Smiffy2k9

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Roger A. Shrubber said:
2 liters is pretty small, but if you're going for the quick flip you can pull it off.
i'm curious how (and why) you would install a float in a 2 liter bottle full of perlite...
you're going to have to water at least twice a day in that size container....shouldn't be a need to "check" a res that you're going to be filling at least twice a day...
top watering is infinitely superior in hempy buckets...it's the way they were designed to be used...the water flowing through the medium oxygenates it...how does bottom watering oxygenate anything?...
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I was following this guide i found https://www.420magazine.com/community/threads/come-sog-with-me-112-plant-2-liter-hempy-sog.138874/

Those size plants fit my space.
To do a float all you need is a lenght of pvc pipewith a slot in the bottom covered in some fabric to stop perlite filling it and still allow water up.

Your point about top watering makes sense.
 
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